There is a story people tell about AI regulation, and it goes like this: the technology is moving too fast, governments can’t keep up, regulators are overwhelmed, and by the time anyone writes a law the thing they’re trying to regulate has already evolved into something else entirely.

No. That’s not the story people are telling about AI regulation. It goes like this:

If we regulate AI, that will give an advantage to AI companies in other countries. They will surpass our AI capabilities and leave us in the technological dust.

There’s a related story:

If we regulate AI, we’re likely to create more problems because Boomers don’t understand technology.

Everyone wants to access Netflix, YouTube, Prime Video, etc through their TV interface and I just don’t get it. The best experience is when you hook up a PC to your TV… not some TV-centric Android OS or Roku’s thing.

Install Kubuntu on some old PC with a GPU that can handle 4K @60Hz and you’re good to go. KDE and Firefox let you crank up the zoom so everything’s easy to read and it even has HDR support (though I prefer going without it… Old person eyes).

It’s such a vastly superior experience. Not only do you get the usual stuff, you can use a real keyboard to type into that search bar. You can also access all those pirate streaming sites and do normal PC stuff like play games.

I browse “All” most of the time and the Femcel Memes show up pretty regularly. It’s not like this gif though. It’s more like watching a super interesting science experiment.

“Ah, yes. I see. I see. How interesting!”

My scientific notes so far:

• They crave cuddles. It’s almost like a cuddle-based economy.

Zuck is having all his keystrokes recorded too, right? Right?

Make sure the AI engineers get that data. Especially the passwords to his and the company’s bank accounts. All his accounts, actually.

There’s a reason why most businesses don’t implement keystroke logging.

The reason why you hear this so often is because academia is designed to teach students based on a logical, reasonable curriculum. The curriculum will be mostly well-thought-out and cover all the important topics.

Then you take someone who followed this perfectly reasonable path and you place them in front of the total shitshow that is most businesses. Everything they think they know won’t be applicable because most of the time, logic and reason were not what drove adoption of any given tool or practice.

I’m the protagonist of a show that got cancelled once I could dress myself.

Don’t be so hard on yourself! I’m sure you’re just one catastrophic heart failure away from greatness 👍

I’ve been researching this a bit… I’ve come to the conclusion that there is no AI bubble. In fact, we’re only just getting started down this road. Unless there’s some massive 100x efficiency breakthrough in training AI and inference, the entire world is going to be building seemingly endless AI data centers (and the normal compute kind, e.g. for stuff like AWS, Google/YouTube, Meta, banks) for at least a decade. Probably a little longer (12-15 years before demand levels out).

Everyone thinks that “AI data center” means ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, etc but there’s 10,000x more demand for AI than those services. Think: Pharmaceutical companies trying to find proteins, scientists (and big agriculture!) trying to model the weather, and other businesses trying to automate stuff. Not just software; robots and things like conveyor belts.

Another example: Ever use one of those self-checkouts that’s mostly just a camera pointing down, where you place the stuff you’re purchasing? That uses AI too.

Having said that, there is a great big bubble in AI: OpenAI, specifically. That will definitely pop one day. And hopefully, the DRAM bullshit will go along with it.

“AI warfare” or, “AI is stealing all the jobs of our army of international scammers, that we allow to operate freely as long as they don’t target Russians!”

Boredom is an emotion. As is hunger.

Ever see someone using Google and cringe? People who have experience getting AI to do what they want feel the same when they see normies writing their prompts.

Don’t forget this far-too-common reason:

• The person that raped you is a police officer.

It takes, “fear of reprisal” to a whole new level.

Grand Theft Data

For crying out loud!

Other place: “UNSCHEDULED OFF-WORLD ACTIVATION!”

(Horn sounds)

“Wait: Is there a sunspot‽”

It ain’t much, but it’s dishonest work.

Remember, kids: If we taught you how to protect your privacy and recover from things like this, you’d also learn how to get around the censorship we impose upon you so stay in the dark and suffer.

The real question: Why didn’t she just make a new Discord account? It’s free and stupidly easy.

It’s not that hard to contact your old friends and tell them your account was hacked. In fact, that happens all the time.

No one will believe you, so they’ll call it “sock therapy.”

Ah, the good old days when your “dumb” refrigerator would kill children playing hide and seek because the latch wouldn’t open from the inside. When it was lined with asbestos because that’s literally the best insulation that exists excepting aerogel. When the mercury thermostat would fail—leaking mercury on to your food (and aerosolizing some which would be breathed in as soon as you opened it)—and it would freeze everything inside, complete with an interior wall of snow that could take days to defrost. It used old school freon, destroying the ozone layer. Or before then, fun highly toxic gasses like methyl chloride!

Those were the days! When a breeze through the house on a day with wonderful weather could blow out the pilot light in your oven, slowly leaking gas into your house, exploding and destroying the entire home late at night while everyone is asleep.

Then the wonders of electricity came along to produce ovens that were hooked up to 220V lines without a grounding wire, and wiring that would slowly fail over time, eventually making contact with the metal frame, electrocuting anyone who touched the device—or anyone that touched the person touching it.

Ovens were built different “back in the day”! They didn’t have anti-tip brackets, resulting in loads of children sitting on the oven door, spilling boiling liquids down upon them.

The best were those old washing machines, though! You could lift up the lid and look inside to see your laundry spinning at high speeds! Just don’t reach your hand in, or you could find out what the term “degloving” means.

Ah yes, the good old days of appliances.